Dr Daniel Kirkpatrick

About

Dr Daniel Kirkpatrick is a Research Fellow at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent. He completed his doctoral thesis in International Conflict Analysis December 2017. He was the Journal Manager for International Peacekeeping from January 2015 until January 2019 and also organised the Conflict Research Society’s Annual conference at the University of Birmingham in 2018. He taught previously at the University of Kent at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

His main area of research is the criminalisation of political expression with a particular focus on counter-terrorist legislation and practice in Northern Ireland and South Africa. He conducted fieldwork involving extensive interviews in both locations as part of his PhD with ex-prisoners, law enforcement, politicians, NGOs, academics, and victims/survivors. He also specialises in both critical and post-structural discourse analysis, genealogy, and case comparative research.

He has previously published with Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and Critical Terrorism Studies alongside media pieces for The Conversation. He is currently working towards a monograph with a University Press.